How to Select Stocks Using Technical Analysis by Martin J. Pring is an essential guide for investors and traders who wish to master the art of stock selection through objective, data-driven methods. Pring—one of the most respected authorities in technical analysis—demonstrates how to identify the strongest opportunities in the market using price trends, relative strength, momentum, and chart patterns.
This book bridges the gap between theory and practice by showing how technical tools can be systematically applied to pick outperforming stocks while avoiding weak ones. Pring explains how to analyze market phases, evaluate volume dynamics, and use indicators like moving averages, rate of change, and oscillators to measure buying and selling pressure. Through clear examples and visual charts, he illustrates how technical evidence provides early signals of accumulation, breakouts, and reversals.
The book is designed as a complete selection framework that integrates top-down market analysis with individual stock evaluation. Whether you’re a short-term trader or long-term investor, Pring’s insights offer the analytical discipline needed to make consistent, rational, and profitable stock selection decisions.
✅ What You’ll Learn:
- How to apply technical indicators to identify strong and weak stocks.
- The importance of market phase analysis in stock selection.
- Techniques for interpreting momentum, moving averages, and relative strength.
- How to read volume and price relationships for early entry signals.
- Methods for combining multiple indicators into a cohesive trading system.
- Practical examples of stock selection using real chart studies.
💡 Key Benefits:
- Learn a structured, repeatable approach to selecting stocks.
- Improve timing and risk control through disciplined technical methods.
- Identify market leadership and relative strength before major trends develop.
- Build a personalized checklist for trade confirmation and exit planning.
- Gain insights from one of the most influential voices in modern technical analysis.
👤 Who This Book Is For:
Ideal for traders, investors, and financial analysts who want to apply professional-level technical tools to the stock selection process. Perfect for those seeking to merge classical charting with systematic, evidence-based decision-making.
📚 Table of Contents:
- The Concept of Relative Strength
- How to Interpret Relative Strength
- Marketplace Examples of Relative Strength
- Smoothed Long-Term Momentum
- Introducing the Know Sure Thing (KST)
- Financial Markets and the Business Cycle
- The Chronology of Bond, Stock, and Commodity Turning Points
- Group Rotation around the Business Cycle
- Selecting Groups and Stocks at Major Turning Points
- Using Changes in Strategic Relationships to Identify Rotational Leadership Changes
- Combining Long-Term Perspective with Short-Term Signals to Isolate Attractive Stock Candidates
How to Select Stocks Using Technical Analysis by Martin J. Pring



Ila O’Connor (verified owner) –
I like this book a lot. It covers stock selection using a sector rotation and intermarket-analysis methodology. I think everyone who has read John Murphy’s classic Intermarket Technical Analysis should go out and buy this book. Murphy gives you the theory, Pring gives you the execution — both are needed.
Gabriel Lucero (verified owner) –
Out of all the books I’ve read this one is really unique. I thought it was just a simple book like all the others on technical analysis but there’s quite a bit of content. I haven’t been able to find anything similar on the internet or from other books. I’m glad I read it. I really understand what’s going on in the not only the stock market but other market. I don’t owe all my credit to this one book it’s a must have for any serious investor. Prings a great teacher and his instuctional cd is great. People too often criticize great teachers because you can’t get enough from them and that’s not a downfall. I mean let’s face it they get put down because some people can’t keep up with profectionist. I have wore the pages off of my book from reading it.